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02-24-2005, 04:31 PM
Sosa said Wednesday that if he had known his departure [leaving the final game of last season without permission less than 15 minutes after the first pitch] would cause such controversy, he wouldn't have done it. He said Baker had given him the final day off.
That's not how Baker saw things Thursday.
``Actually, the trainer came in the night before and told me he (Sosa) wanted off,'' Baker said. ``He said he wanted off. I said, `Fine, if that's how you want it, if you don't want to play, then I'll play (rookie Jason) Dubois. I didn't give him the day off. He asked for it. Again, it's a matter of who you believe.''
Everyone here believes you, Dusty. In fact, everyone but Shammie himself believes you.
Sosa praised Orioles manager Lee Mazzilli and told reporters Mazzilli was the first manager to be honest with him.
``He said the same thing about me when I first got here, and when Baylor first got here,'' said Baker, referring to Don Baylor, who managed Sosa from 2000-2002 and with whom Sosa sparred in Baylor's first season.
Asked if he wished the controversy would go away, Baker replied: ``Yeah, sure, because Sammy's gone. At least you should be able to tell the truth about things.''
I agree. If you can't trust roid users with corked bats to tell the truth, who can you trust.
Link to Article (http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylc=X3oDMTBpcDBuM2RlBF9TAzk1ODYxNzc3BHNlYwN0 aA--?slug=ap-cubs-baker-sosa&prov=ap&type=lgns)
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That's not how Baker saw things Thursday.
``Actually, the trainer came in the night before and told me he (Sosa) wanted off,'' Baker said. ``He said he wanted off. I said, `Fine, if that's how you want it, if you don't want to play, then I'll play (rookie Jason) Dubois. I didn't give him the day off. He asked for it. Again, it's a matter of who you believe.''
Everyone here believes you, Dusty. In fact, everyone but Shammie himself believes you.
Sosa praised Orioles manager Lee Mazzilli and told reporters Mazzilli was the first manager to be honest with him.
``He said the same thing about me when I first got here, and when Baylor first got here,'' said Baker, referring to Don Baylor, who managed Sosa from 2000-2002 and with whom Sosa sparred in Baylor's first season.
Asked if he wished the controversy would go away, Baker replied: ``Yeah, sure, because Sammy's gone. At least you should be able to tell the truth about things.''
I agree. If you can't trust roid users with corked bats to tell the truth, who can you trust.
Link to Article (http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylc=X3oDMTBpcDBuM2RlBF9TAzk1ODYxNzc3BHNlYwN0 aA--?slug=ap-cubs-baker-sosa&prov=ap&type=lgns)
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